Uses of Package
elki.distance

Packages that use elki.distance

Package	Description
elki.algorithm	Miscellaneous algorithms.
elki.algorithm.statistics	Statistical analysis algorithms.
elki.application	Base classes for standalone applications.
elki.application.benchmark	Benchmarking pseudo algorithms.
elki.application.cache	Utility applications for the persistence layer such as distance cache builders.
elki.application.greedyensemble	Greedy ensembles for outlier detection.
elki.application.statistics	Applications to compute some basic data set statistics.
elki.classification	Classification algorithms.
elki.clustering	Clustering algorithms.
elki.clustering.affinitypropagation	Affinity Propagation (AP) clustering.
elki.clustering.dbscan	DBSCAN and its generalizations.
elki.clustering.dbscan.predicates	Neighbor and core predicated for Generalized DBSCAN.
elki.clustering.hierarchical	Hierarchical agglomerative clustering (HAC).
elki.clustering.kcenter	K-center clustering.
elki.clustering.kmeans	K-means clustering and variations.
elki.clustering.kmeans.initialization	Initialization strategies for k-means.
elki.clustering.kmeans.parallel	Parallelized implementations of k-means.
elki.clustering.kmeans.quality	Quality measures for k-Means results.
elki.clustering.kmedoids	K-medoids clustering (PAM).
elki.clustering.kmedoids.initialization
elki.clustering.optics	OPTICS family of clustering algorithms.
elki.clustering.silhouette	Silhouette clustering algorithms.
elki.clustering.uncertain	Clustering algorithms for uncertain data.
elki.database.query	Database queries - computing distances, neighbors, similarities - API and general documentation.
elki.database.query.distance	Prepared queries for distances.
elki.database.query.knn	Prepared queries for k nearest neighbor (kNN) queries.
elki.datasource.filter.normalization.instancewise	Instancewise normalization, where each instance is normalized independently.
elki.datasource.filter.transform	Data space transformations.
elki.distance	Distance functions for use within ELKI.
elki.distance.adapter	Distance functions deriving distances from, e.g., similarity measures.
elki.distance.colorhistogram	Distance functions for color histograms.
elki.distance.correlation	Distance functions using correlations.
elki.distance.external	Distance functions using external data sources.
elki.distance.geo	Geographic (earth) distance functions.
elki.distance.histogram	Distance functions for one-dimensional histograms.
elki.distance.minkowski	Minkowski space Lp norms such as the popular Euclidean and Manhattan distances.
elki.distance.probabilistic	Distance from probability theory, mostly divergences such as K-L-divergence, J-divergence, F-divergence, χ²-divergence, etc.
elki.distance.set	Distance functions for binary and set type data.
elki.distance.strings	Distance functions for strings.
elki.distance.subspace	Distance functions based on subspaces.
elki.distance.timeseries	Distance functions designed for time series.
elki.evaluation.clustering.internal	Internal evaluation measures for clusterings.
elki.evaluation.similaritymatrix	Render a distance matrix to visualize a clustering-distance-combination.
elki.index	Index structure implementations.
elki.index.distancematrix	Precomputed distance matrix.
elki.index.idistance	iDistance is a distance based indexing technique, using a reference points embedding.
elki.index.laesa	Linear Approximating and Eliminating Search Algorithm (LAESA).
elki.index.lsh.hashfamilies	Hash function families for LSH.
elki.index.preprocessed.knn	Indexes providing KNN and rKNN data.
elki.index.preprocessed.snn	Indexes providing nearest neighbor sets.
elki.index.tree.metrical	Tree-based index structures for metrical vector spaces.
elki.index.tree.metrical.covertree	Cover-tree variations.
elki.index.tree.metrical.mtreevariants	M-tree and variants.
elki.index.tree.metrical.vptree
elki.index.tree.spatial.kd	K-d-tree and variants.
elki.index.tree.spatial.rstarvariants.query	Queries on the R-Tree family of indexes: kNN and range queries.
elki.index.tree.spatial.rstarvariants.rdknn	RdKNNTree.
elki.index.tree.spatial.rstarvariants.strategies.reinsert	Reinsertion strategies for R-trees.
elki.math.linearalgebra.pca	Principal Component Analysis (PCA) and eigenvector processing.
elki.outlier	Outlier detection algorithms.
elki.outlier.clustering	Clustering based outlier detection.
elki.outlier.distance	Distance-based outlier detection algorithms, such as DBOutlier and kNN.
elki.outlier.distance.parallel	Parallel implementations of distance-based outlier detectors.
elki.outlier.intrinsic	Outlier detection algorithms based on intrinsic dimensionality.
elki.outlier.lof	LOF family of outlier detection algorithms.
elki.outlier.lof.parallel	Parallelized variants of LOF.
elki.outlier.spatial	Spatial outlier detection algorithms.
elki.outlier.spatial.neighborhood	Spatial outlier neighborhood classes.
elki.outlier.subspace	Subspace outlier detection methods.
elki.projection	Data projections (see also preprocessing filters for basic projections).
elki.similarity	Similarity functions.
elki.similarity.cluster	Similarity measures for comparing clusters.
elki.similarity.kernel	Kernel functions.
tutorial.clustering	Classes from the tutorial on implementing a custom k-means variation.
tutorial.distancefunction	Classes from the tutorial on implementing distance functions.
tutorial.outlier	Tutorials on implementing outlier detection methods in ELKI.

Classes in elki.distance used by elki.algorithm

Class	Description
Distance	Base interface for any kind of distances.
NumberVectorDistance	Base interface for the common case of distance functions defined on numerical vectors.
SpatialPrimitiveDistance	API for a spatial primitive distance function.

Classes in elki.distance used by elki.algorithm.statistics

Class	Description
Distance	Base interface for any kind of distances.
NumberVectorDistance	Base interface for the common case of distance functions defined on numerical vectors.

Classes in elki.distance used by elki.application

Class	Description
Distance	Base interface for any kind of distances.

Classes in elki.distance used by elki.application.benchmark

Class	Description
Distance	Base interface for any kind of distances.

Classes in elki.distance used by elki.application.cache

Class	Description
Distance	Base interface for any kind of distances.

Classes in elki.distance used by elki.application.greedyensemble

Class	Description
Distance	Base interface for any kind of distances.
PrimitiveDistance	Primitive distance function that is defined on some kind of object.

Classes in elki.distance used by elki.application.statistics

Class	Description
Distance	Base interface for any kind of distances.

Classes in elki.distance used by elki.classification

Class	Description
Distance	Base interface for any kind of distances.

Classes in elki.distance used by elki.clustering

Class	Description
Distance	Base interface for any kind of distances.
NumberVectorDistance	Base interface for the common case of distance functions defined on numerical vectors.

Classes in elki.distance used by elki.clustering.affinitypropagation

Class	Description
Distance	Base interface for any kind of distances.

Classes in elki.distance used by elki.clustering.dbscan

Class	Description
Distance	Base interface for any kind of distances.

Classes in elki.distance used by elki.clustering.dbscan.predicates

Class	Description
Distance	Base interface for any kind of distances.

Classes in elki.distance used by elki.clustering.hierarchical

Class	Description
Distance	Base interface for any kind of distances.
PrimitiveDistance	Primitive distance function that is defined on some kind of object.

Classes in elki.distance used by elki.clustering.kcenter

Class	Description
Distance	Base interface for any kind of distances.

Classes in elki.distance used by elki.clustering.kmeans

Class	Description
NumberVectorDistance	Base interface for the common case of distance functions defined on numerical vectors.

Classes in elki.distance used by elki.clustering.kmeans.initialization

Class	Description
NumberVectorDistance	Base interface for the common case of distance functions defined on numerical vectors.

Classes in elki.distance used by elki.clustering.kmeans.parallel

Class	Description
NumberVectorDistance	Base interface for the common case of distance functions defined on numerical vectors.

Classes in elki.distance used by elki.clustering.kmeans.quality

Class	Description
NumberVectorDistance	Base interface for the common case of distance functions defined on numerical vectors.

Classes in elki.distance used by elki.clustering.kmedoids

Class	Description
Distance	Base interface for any kind of distances.

Classes in elki.distance used by elki.clustering.kmedoids.initialization

Class	Description
NumberVectorDistance	Base interface for the common case of distance functions defined on numerical vectors.

Classes in elki.distance used by elki.clustering.optics

Class	Description
Distance	Base interface for any kind of distances.
SpatialPrimitiveDistance	API for a spatial primitive distance function.

Classes in elki.distance used by elki.clustering.silhouette

Class	Description
Distance	Base interface for any kind of distances.

Classes in elki.distance used by elki.clustering.uncertain

Class	Description
NumberVectorDistance	Base interface for the common case of distance functions defined on numerical vectors.

Classes in elki.distance used by elki.database.query

Class	Description
Distance	Base interface for any kind of distances.

Classes in elki.distance used by elki.database.query.distance

Class	Description
DBIDDistance	Distance functions valid in a database context only (i.e. for DBIDs)
DBIDRangeDistance	Distance functions valid in a static database context only (i.e. for DBIDRanges) For any "distance" that cannot be computed for arbitrary objects, only those that exist in the database and referenced by their ID.
Distance	Base interface for any kind of distances.
PrimitiveDistance	Primitive distance function that is defined on some kind of object.
SpatialPrimitiveDistance	API for a spatial primitive distance function.

Classes in elki.distance used by elki.database.query.knn

Class	Description
PrimitiveDistance	Primitive distance function that is defined on some kind of object.

Classes in elki.distance used by elki.datasource.filter.normalization.instancewise

Class	Description
Norm	Abstract interface for a mathematical norm.

Classes in elki.distance used by elki.datasource.filter.transform

Class	Description
PrimitiveDistance	Primitive distance function that is defined on some kind of object.

Classes in elki.distance used by elki.distance

Class	Description
AbstractDatabaseDistance	Abstract super class for distance functions needing a database context.
AbstractIndexBasedDistance	Abstract super class for distance functions needing a database index.
AbstractIndexBasedDistance.Instance	The actual instance bound to a particular database.
AbstractNumberVectorDistance	Abstract base class for the most common family of distance functions: defined on number vectors and returning double values.
ArcCosineDistance	Arcus cosine distance function for feature vectors.
ArcCosineUnitlengthDistance	Arcus cosine distance function for feature vectors.
BrayCurtisDistance	Bray-Curtis distance function / Sørensen–Dice coefficient for continuous vector spaces (not only binary data).
CanberraDistance	Canberra distance function, a variation of Manhattan distance.
ClarkDistance	Clark distance function for vector spaces.
CosineDistance	Cosine distance function for feature vectors.
CosineUnitlengthDistance	Cosine distance function for unit length feature vectors.
DBIDDistance	Distance functions valid in a database context only (i.e. for DBIDs)
DBIDRangeDistance	Distance functions valid in a static database context only (i.e. for DBIDRanges) For any "distance" that cannot be computed for arbitrary objects, only those that exist in the database and referenced by their ID.
Distance	Base interface for any kind of distances.
IndexBasedDistance	Distance function relying on an index (such as preprocessed neighborhoods).
IndexBasedDistance.Instance	Instance interface for Index based distance functions.
MatrixWeightedQuadraticDistance	Matrix weighted quadratic distance, the squared form of MahalanobisDistance.
Norm	Abstract interface for a mathematical norm.
NumberVectorDistance	Base interface for the common case of distance functions defined on numerical vectors.
PrimitiveDistance	Primitive distance function that is defined on some kind of object.
RandomStableDistance	This is a dummy distance providing random values (obviously not metrical), useful mostly for unit tests and baseline evaluations: obviously this distance provides no benefit whatsoever.
SharedNearestNeighborJaccardDistance	SharedNearestNeighborJaccardDistance computes the Jaccard coefficient, which is a proper distance metric.
SharedNearestNeighborJaccardDistance.Instance	Actual instance for a dataset.
SpatialPrimitiveDistance	API for a spatial primitive distance function.
SqrtCosineDistance	Cosine distance function for feature vectors using the square root.
SqrtCosineUnitlengthDistance	Cosine distance function for unit length feature vectors using the square root.
WeightedCanberraDistance	Weighted Canberra distance function, a variation of Manhattan distance.
WeightedNumberVectorDistance	Distance functions where each dimension is assigned a weight.

Classes in elki.distance used by elki.distance.adapter

Class	Description
AbstractDatabaseDistance	Abstract super class for distance functions needing a database context.
AbstractDatabaseDistance.Instance	The actual instance bound to a particular database.
Distance	Base interface for any kind of distances.

Classes in elki.distance used by elki.distance.colorhistogram

Class	Description
AbstractNumberVectorDistance	Abstract base class for the most common family of distance functions: defined on number vectors and returning double values.
Distance	Base interface for any kind of distances.
MatrixWeightedQuadraticDistance	Matrix weighted quadratic distance, the squared form of MahalanobisDistance.
Norm	Abstract interface for a mathematical norm.
NumberVectorDistance	Base interface for the common case of distance functions defined on numerical vectors.
PrimitiveDistance	Primitive distance function that is defined on some kind of object.
SpatialPrimitiveDistance	API for a spatial primitive distance function.

Classes in elki.distance used by elki.distance.correlation

Class	Description
AbstractNumberVectorDistance	Abstract base class for the most common family of distance functions: defined on number vectors and returning double values.
Distance	Base interface for any kind of distances.
NumberVectorDistance	Base interface for the common case of distance functions defined on numerical vectors.
PrimitiveDistance	Primitive distance function that is defined on some kind of object.
WeightedNumberVectorDistance	Distance functions where each dimension is assigned a weight.

Classes in elki.distance used by elki.distance.external

Class	Description
AbstractDatabaseDistance	Abstract super class for distance functions needing a database context.
AbstractDBIDRangeDistance	Abstract base class for distance functions that rely on integer offsets within a consecutive range.
DBIDDistance	Distance functions valid in a database context only (i.e. for DBIDs)
DBIDRangeDistance	Distance functions valid in a static database context only (i.e. for DBIDRanges) For any "distance" that cannot be computed for arbitrary objects, only those that exist in the database and referenced by their ID.
Distance	Base interface for any kind of distances.

Classes in elki.distance used by elki.distance.geo

Class	Description
Distance	Base interface for any kind of distances.
NumberVectorDistance	Base interface for the common case of distance functions defined on numerical vectors.
PrimitiveDistance	Primitive distance function that is defined on some kind of object.
SpatialPrimitiveDistance	API for a spatial primitive distance function.

Classes in elki.distance used by elki.distance.histogram

Class	Description
AbstractNumberVectorDistance	Abstract base class for the most common family of distance functions: defined on number vectors and returning double values.
Distance	Base interface for any kind of distances.
NumberVectorDistance	Base interface for the common case of distance functions defined on numerical vectors.
PrimitiveDistance	Primitive distance function that is defined on some kind of object.
SpatialPrimitiveDistance	API for a spatial primitive distance function.

Classes in elki.distance used by elki.distance.minkowski

Class	Description
AbstractNumberVectorDistance	Abstract base class for the most common family of distance functions: defined on number vectors and returning double values.
Distance	Base interface for any kind of distances.
Norm	Abstract interface for a mathematical norm.
NumberVectorDistance	Base interface for the common case of distance functions defined on numerical vectors.
PrimitiveDistance	Primitive distance function that is defined on some kind of object.
SpatialPrimitiveDistance	API for a spatial primitive distance function.
WeightedNumberVectorDistance	Distance functions where each dimension is assigned a weight.

Classes in elki.distance used by elki.distance.probabilistic

Class	Description
AbstractNumberVectorDistance	Abstract base class for the most common family of distance functions: defined on number vectors and returning double values.
Distance	Base interface for any kind of distances.
NumberVectorDistance	Base interface for the common case of distance functions defined on numerical vectors.
PrimitiveDistance	Primitive distance function that is defined on some kind of object.
SpatialPrimitiveDistance	API for a spatial primitive distance function.

Classes in elki.distance used by elki.distance.set

Class	Description
Distance	Base interface for any kind of distances.
NumberVectorDistance	Base interface for the common case of distance functions defined on numerical vectors.
PrimitiveDistance	Primitive distance function that is defined on some kind of object.

Classes in elki.distance used by elki.distance.strings

Class	Description
Distance	Base interface for any kind of distances.
PrimitiveDistance	Primitive distance function that is defined on some kind of object.

Classes in elki.distance used by elki.distance.subspace

Class	Description
AbstractNumberVectorDistance	Abstract base class for the most common family of distance functions: defined on number vectors and returning double values.
Distance	Base interface for any kind of distances.
Norm	Abstract interface for a mathematical norm.
NumberVectorDistance	Base interface for the common case of distance functions defined on numerical vectors.
PrimitiveDistance	Primitive distance function that is defined on some kind of object.
SpatialPrimitiveDistance	API for a spatial primitive distance function.

Classes in elki.distance used by elki.distance.timeseries

Class	Description
AbstractNumberVectorDistance	Abstract base class for the most common family of distance functions: defined on number vectors and returning double values.
Distance	Base interface for any kind of distances.
NumberVectorDistance	Base interface for the common case of distance functions defined on numerical vectors.
PrimitiveDistance	Primitive distance function that is defined on some kind of object.

Classes in elki.distance used by elki.evaluation.clustering.internal

Class	Description
Distance	Base interface for any kind of distances.
NumberVectorDistance	Base interface for the common case of distance functions defined on numerical vectors.
PrimitiveDistance	Primitive distance function that is defined on some kind of object.

Classes in elki.distance used by elki.evaluation.similaritymatrix

Class	Description
Distance	Base interface for any kind of distances.

Classes in elki.distance used by elki.index

Class	Description
Distance	Base interface for any kind of distances.

Classes in elki.distance used by elki.index.distancematrix

Class	Description
Distance	Base interface for any kind of distances.

Classes in elki.distance used by elki.index.idistance

Class	Description
Distance	Base interface for any kind of distances.

Classes in elki.distance used by elki.index.laesa

Class	Description
Distance	Base interface for any kind of distances.

Classes in elki.distance used by elki.index.lsh.hashfamilies

Class	Description
Distance	Base interface for any kind of distances.

Classes in elki.distance used by elki.index.preprocessed.knn

Class	Description
Distance	Base interface for any kind of distances.

Classes in elki.distance used by elki.index.preprocessed.snn

Class	Description
Distance	Base interface for any kind of distances.

Classes in elki.distance used by elki.index.tree.metrical

Class	Description
Distance	Base interface for any kind of distances.

Classes in elki.distance used by elki.index.tree.metrical.covertree

Class	Description
Distance	Base interface for any kind of distances.

Classes in elki.distance used by elki.index.tree.metrical.mtreevariants

Class	Description
Distance	Base interface for any kind of distances.

Classes in elki.distance used by elki.index.tree.metrical.vptree

Class	Description
Distance	Base interface for any kind of distances.

Classes in elki.distance used by elki.index.tree.spatial.kd

Class	Description
PrimitiveDistance	Primitive distance function that is defined on some kind of object.

Classes in elki.distance used by elki.index.tree.spatial.rstarvariants.query

Class	Description
SpatialPrimitiveDistance	API for a spatial primitive distance function.

Classes in elki.distance used by elki.index.tree.spatial.rstarvariants.rdknn

Class	Description
SpatialPrimitiveDistance	API for a spatial primitive distance function.

Classes in elki.distance used by elki.index.tree.spatial.rstarvariants.strategies.reinsert

Class	Description
SpatialPrimitiveDistance	API for a spatial primitive distance function.

Classes in elki.distance used by elki.math.linearalgebra.pca

Class	Description
PrimitiveDistance	Primitive distance function that is defined on some kind of object.

Classes in elki.distance used by elki.outlier

Class	Description
Distance	Base interface for any kind of distances.

Classes in elki.distance used by elki.outlier.clustering

Class	Description
Distance	Base interface for any kind of distances.
NumberVectorDistance	Base interface for the common case of distance functions defined on numerical vectors.

Classes in elki.distance used by elki.outlier.distance

Class	Description
Distance	Base interface for any kind of distances.
NumberVectorDistance	Base interface for the common case of distance functions defined on numerical vectors.

Classes in elki.distance used by elki.outlier.distance.parallel

Class	Description
Distance	Base interface for any kind of distances.

Classes in elki.distance used by elki.outlier.intrinsic

Class	Description
Distance	Base interface for any kind of distances.

Classes in elki.distance used by elki.outlier.lof

Class	Description
Distance	Base interface for any kind of distances.
NumberVectorDistance	Base interface for the common case of distance functions defined on numerical vectors.

Classes in elki.distance used by elki.outlier.lof.parallel

Class	Description
Distance	Base interface for any kind of distances.

Classes in elki.distance used by elki.outlier.spatial

Class	Description
Distance	Base interface for any kind of distances.
PrimitiveDistance	Primitive distance function that is defined on some kind of object.

Classes in elki.distance used by elki.outlier.spatial.neighborhood

Class	Description
Distance	Base interface for any kind of distances.

Classes in elki.distance used by elki.outlier.subspace

Class	Description
PrimitiveDistance	Primitive distance function that is defined on some kind of object.

Classes in elki.distance used by elki.projection

Class	Description
Distance	Base interface for any kind of distances.

Classes in elki.distance used by elki.similarity

Class	Description
AbstractNumberVectorDistance	Abstract base class for the most common family of distance functions: defined on number vectors and returning double values.
Distance	Base interface for any kind of distances.
NumberVectorDistance	Base interface for the common case of distance functions defined on numerical vectors.
PrimitiveDistance	Primitive distance function that is defined on some kind of object.
SpatialPrimitiveDistance	API for a spatial primitive distance function.

Classes in elki.distance used by elki.similarity.cluster

Class	Description
Distance	Base interface for any kind of distances.
PrimitiveDistance	Primitive distance function that is defined on some kind of object.

Classes in elki.distance used by elki.similarity.kernel

Class	Description
Distance	Base interface for any kind of distances.
PrimitiveDistance	Primitive distance function that is defined on some kind of object.

Classes in elki.distance used by tutorial.clustering

Class	Description
Distance	Base interface for any kind of distances.
NumberVectorDistance	Base interface for the common case of distance functions defined on numerical vectors.

Classes in elki.distance used by tutorial.distancefunction

Class	Description
AbstractNumberVectorDistance	Abstract base class for the most common family of distance functions: defined on number vectors and returning double values.
Distance	Base interface for any kind of distances.
NumberVectorDistance	Base interface for the common case of distance functions defined on numerical vectors.
PrimitiveDistance	Primitive distance function that is defined on some kind of object.

Classes in elki.distance used by tutorial.outlier

Class	Description
Distance	Base interface for any kind of distances.